O processo de produção de minisséries históricas: o passado romantizado

Abstract

This dissertation aims to study TV dramas based on historical events. The two selected works for analysis are mini-series dealing with historical narratives: A Muralha and Um So Coracao, produced by Globo Networks – Brazil, also stressing out the work of their author, Maria Adelaide Amaral. The initial goal in this study was a comparison between fictional narratives and historical knowledge. However, developing the subject allowed us to work with a collective cultural and industrial product, which uses the historical information in order to build an unique fictional narrative. These two mini-series based on historical events were selected because they both relate to aspects of the history of Sao Paulo city. In comparing fiction with the historiographical studies, we were able to identify some of the sources which were used, as well as the transformations that have occurred at the mini-series. We can see that the fictional narratives in television drama, even based in historical events, are structured according to the logic of romantic fiction. The historical information is diluted into the pitoresque, the exotic, the distinctive, but is still understood by the average viewer an image of the historical truth.